Why is catch 22 by Joseph heller banned?

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According to the American Library Association's website, it was "banned in Strongsville, OH (1972), but the school board's action was overturned in 1976 by a U.S. District Court in Minarcini v. Strongsville City School District. Challenged at the Dallas, TX Independent School District high school libraries (1974); in Snoqualmie, WA (1979) because of its several references to women as "whores"."

I read from a questionable source the initial banning was for offensive language.

There are a few books in this life I have picked up and not completed. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy is one & Catch 22 is another: Laugh, I nearly did. Nope, I can…not comment on Hellers existential philosophy, I am sorry to say of all the books I have ever picked up Catch 22 was a very sad error in my selctive process. Quite simply I found it boring.

A poor guy called Orr is in the US military and wants to get out. But there's a catch: Catch-22 specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were …real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. a bureaucratic conundrum

The catch is that if Orr is crazy, then he will be grounded from flying missions because he does not recognize the danger of the task. However, if he asks to be grounded (beca…use he recognizes the danger), he is proclaimed sane, so he will have to fly the missions.

Well a theme can't just be pride, it has to be about pride. I don't really think it is a specific theme in the book. Heller definitely connects to pride and all of the seven d…eadly sins in the book. Those connection however relate back to his theme that Bureaucracy is corrupt.